Don't Let Life Pass You By...

We all have a purpose, a calling, for this life.

We all have an enemy

whose job is to thwart our purpose,

to thwart our relationship with Jesus.

Resist the enemy of our souls...

press in to know Him, Jesus

who will lead us to our desired haven. 

Don't let life pass you by.

Psalm 107:30 Then are they glad because they are quiet; 

so he brings them unto their desired haven.

 

http://www.earnestlycontending.com/ewministries/others/spurgeon/desiredhaven.html C.H. Spurgeon 

"But I come now to the point I want specially to drive at, and that is the passage to the haven. They are brought to the haven they desire, and they are brought there by the Pilot, but how are they brought? The text says: “So he bringeth them to their desired haven.” The way into the haven is not always a smooth one. Some are brought to Christ as if they had never known a storm. Do not, of course, desire and seek a storm; but so long as you get safely into the haven it matters not how you get there. If you trust Christ, do not trouble yourselves, because you never went through the Slough of Despond. Read the life of John Bunyan, and you will find him much troubled and tumbled up and down for years. You may have felt little of this, perhaps, yet if your trust in Christ is sincere and real it matters not. If the ship reaches the haven, and is safely sheltered there, whether she had a stormy passage or a smooth one is of little importance. The great thing is to be “Safe home, safe home in port.” Still, it often happens that we come into the port of Christ’s salvation through a storm. Read the passage and you will see how frequently this occurs. “They mount up to heaven, they go down again into the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man. They cry unto the lord in their trouble and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm to be a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quite: So he bringeth them to their desired haven.” They are greatly troubled, but it drives them to prayer, prayer gets its answer, and so they get Christ. I do thank God that so I was brought into peace by believing. It was many and many a day before I found Christ. It is a strange thing, but as I was talking this afternoon with a dear friend in Christ about spiritual things, we remarked to one another that the most of the men who had been made useful in winning souls had a hard time of it, when they first came to Christ. For the most part a deep and painful experience seems to be absolutely necessary to enable a minister to get a hold and a grip upon the doctrines of grace, Still, let us never forget that the tossing is not the haven and the storm is not the port. A sense of sin does not save, and terrors of conscience do not justify. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” That is the great message to us all. Trust in Jesus: this it is that brings you into port. May God bring you there! and we will then sing together, and “praise the lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men.”